Law & Humanities Blog

Rashed M. Aba-Namay, National Law Center, has published Legal and Administrative Traditions Across Medieval Legal Cultures: Personnel Networ...

Jerry L. Anderson, Drake University Law School, has published The Battle for Lower Manhattan: Trinity Church versus the Bogardus Heirs . Her...

From Amy Kellam, IALS, University of London: A month ago, I shared the call for papers for a special section of Amicus Curiae on Law and Cu...

 Daniel Solove on the tv series The Audacity, technology, and privacy. 

  Call for Applications for Visiting Fellows 2027,  Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, University of Lucerne   The Institute...

Devon W. Carbado, UCLA School of Law, is publishing Can you be Black and Teach that? in the New York University Law Review. Here is the abs...

From Solove on Tech: Snoopers, Peepers, and Watchers: 20+ Depictions from Legend, Literature, and Film from the 1600s to Today .

Michael Conklin, Texas A&M University School of Law, has published Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer: An Adventure in Christmas Litigat...

I. Bennett Capers, Fordham University School of Law, has published Silencing as Blackening at 114 Georgetown Law Journal 813 (2026). Here i...

From Professor Paolo Farah, University of Tulsa School of Law: Upcoming Webinar: Taxation, Racial Capitalism, and the International Rule of ...

Audra Savage, Wake Forest University School of Law, has published Slavery and the Myth of Religious Liberty at 51 BYU Law Review 1363. Here...

Sid DeLong on Legal Fictions: A Guest Post. Published at ContractsProf Blog .

Edgar A. Fernandez-Lopez has published Turandot and the Exhaustion of Power: Ritual, Genealogy, Sacrifice, and the Twilight of Civilizations...

Jonathan Crowe, University of Southern Queensland, School of Law and Justice, has published Pseudolaw, Folk Law and Natural Law: How to Tell...

Thomas Schultz, King's College London, University of Geneva, has published Acts of Truth: Emotions and the Validation of Legal Knowledge...

Forthcoming from Thomas Giddens, Dundee Law School: Typographic Legality: The Source and Transmission of the Common Law (Edinburgh Universit...

From Daniel Solove's Solove on Tech:  A Century Ago, E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops" Predicted How AI and Digital Tech...

News from Paolo Davide Farah, University of Tulsa College of Law:  The webinar Indigenous Legal Orders, Legal Pluralism, and the Coloniality...

Princeton University Press is having a fifty-percent-off sale through June 9th on most of its books.  Many titles of interest, but here are ...

Jason Mazzone, Univesity of Illinois College of Law, has published The Unitary Executive and the Decisions of 1789 and 1861 at 59 UC Davis ...

William Hyland, Vernis & Bowling Law Firm, has published "It Ends With A Lawsuit": Blake Lively V. Justin Baldoni A Mock Trial...

Daniel Solove has published "Selling Privacy: A Collection of Ads for Privacy" on his Solove on Tech substack. Read the essay here...

Daniel Solove, George Washington University Law School, has published Dangerous Oracles: Minority Report, Philip K. Dick, and AI Predictions...

Shathera Little, Protecting Black Creativity: Rap Lyrics as Misused Evidence and the Case for Intellectual Property Law Reform . Here is the...

Dennis J. Wieboldt, III, has published Ken Kersch and the New Legal History: Beyond the Internalist/Externalist Divide at 4 J. Am. Const. H...

Paul A. Gowder, Northwestern University School of Law, is publishing Never Send to Know on Whom the Boot Stomps; it Stomps on Thee in the A...

Farah Peterson, University of Chicago Law School, has published The Limits of Text at 135 Yale L.J. 2790 (2026). Let’s say the “laws” are...

Lynette Perez, City of Little Rock, has published The 14th Amendment From Homer Plessy To Kilmar Abrego Garcia: Citizenship And Due Process ...

ICYMI: Robert Barsky,  Clamouring for Legal Protection: What the Great Books Teach Us About People Fleeing from Persecution (Bloomsbury, 20...

 From Dr. Steven Howe, University of Lucerne: CFP: Law and the Humanities World (1 & 2 September, Lucerne)   In Humanities Theory (2...

Giuseppe Martinico, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, has published Frames of Injustice: Comics As Constitutional Critique; Marcos De In...

David Gindis, University of Warwick Law School and Steven G. Medema, Duke University, Department of Economics, have published Henry Manne, P...

Robert Stevens, University of Oxford, Faculty of Law, has published Private Law and Statute . Here is the abstract. A paper on the relations...

David Clark, Emeritus Professor of Law, Flinders University, has published The Knowledge of the Law is like a Deep Well: Coke and Bonham...

Jocelyn Simonson, Brooklyn Law School, and Zohra Ahmed, Boston University School of Law, are publishing Legal Satire in an Age of Political ...

Simon Stern, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, has published Detective Fiction in the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature,...

Zareen Banu has published The Butterfly Effect in Law: How One Legal Decision Shapes Societal Psyche. Here is the abstract. Legal decisio...

Newly published: Ari Z. Bryen, Vanderbilt University, has published The Judgment of the Provinces: The Roman Empire and the Origins of Law a...

Newly published: Paul Kléber Monod, Middlebury College, has published Think of England: Nation, People, and Race im the English Imagination ...

Lorenzo Casini, The Institute for Advanced Studies, has published Who Owns the Past? Politics and Law in the Restitution of Cultural Propert...

Scott Fruehwald, Independent Scholar, has published Theory-Induced Blindness in Legal Scholarship: A Critical Thinking Solution. The truth...

  Extended deadline: The final deadline for applications has been extended to May 10th ! "Law in Transit - Moving Subjects, Universal...